{"id":1487,"date":"2011-10-12T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2011-10-12T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:58:52","slug":"virus-hits-us-drone-fleet-is-skynet-finally-ready-to-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/virus-hits-us-drone-fleet-is-skynet-finally-ready-to-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus hits US Drone Fleet: Is Skynet finally ready to take over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><rant>I typed an entire post while in flight back to Bangalore and then because the wordpress app for Android requires a netconnection to work and doesn&#8217;t allow you to work offline, I lost my entire post and now have to type it all again. <\/rant><\/p>\n<p>Looks like we are about ready for the end of the world and the start of the robot Apocalypse. A virus has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/10\/virus-hits-drone-fleet\/\">infected the US Drone fleet<\/a> and so far the admins have been unable to remove the infection. Now all we need is for the US military to hand over control of its entire system to a super AI and we are ready to go. To make things even better we also have early prototypes of HK&#8217;s (HunterKillers) in testing in various labs around the world. <\/p>\n<p>Its funny how real life follows fiction at times. When I used to tell people that I was interested in Artificial intelligence, the most common reaction I would get was &#8220;are you crazy? Haven&#8217;t you seen Terminator?&#8221; Now if we have a rogue AI running around its actually possible for it to cause a whole lot of damage, maybe not to the tune of &#8216;end of the world&#8217; but enough to make life miserable for a whole lot of people. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe its time to stock up on my tin-foil hats and MRE&#8217;s \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I typed an entire post while in flight back to Bangalore and then because the wordpress app for Android requires a netconnection to work and doesn&#8217;t allow you to work offline, I lost my entire post and now have to type it all again. Looks like we are about ready for the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-related","category-my-thoughts","category-newsarticles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}